A little over a decade ago I was watching cable and chanced across a movie called “Powder.” I wasn't paying that much attention to it, when suddenly my cultural/art antennae started waving back and worth.
Here's the scene that did it: there are some teenage boys...shirtless...muscular...hairless...with water in slow-motion running down their chests...wet....glistening.
Who's the pervert making this film? I thought. This wasn't merely homosexuality, this was pederasty, possibly pedophilia. There was a similar scene is which another teenage boy, wearing low-cut jeans, has an invisible force (that would be Powder) start to undo the snaps on them. Slowly and lingeringly.
I didn't watch the rest of the film (it was that bad), and then forgot about it. I figured this is Hollywood, which is full of a bunch of perverts, anyway.
A few years later, I found the movie had been written and directed by one Victor Salva, a convicted child molester who had served time in prison for video-taping himself having oral sex with a 12-year-old boy, whom he had molested since the boy was seven. My antennae were right on the mark.
Shamefully, this movie was put out by Walt Disney Studios, of all companies. How did this company go from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and “Fantasia” to “Powder”?
Intrigued, I rented the film, and found it to be one of the creepiest movies I've ever seen, because it is a window into the mind of a child molester. And if most child molesters are like Salva, they don't see anything wrong with what they are. In their minds, everyone else has the problem.
By the way, Salva only served 15 months of a three-year sentence. Three years for five felony counts? And he was a former child-care worker?
“Powder” is the story of a misunderstood genius (that would be Salva) who may in fact be the Messiah. This is what Salva thinks of himself. In his mind the Messiah gives blowjobs to 12-year-old boys. And it's a good thing.
Powder (who goes by the name Jeremy Green in the movie) is a bald albino 16-year-old whose grandfather, his last remaining relative, dies, leading authorities to find Powder living under the floorboards. That's some grandpa who sticks his grandson in the basement for all 16 of his years.
Powder is immediately stuck into the local school, never mind what he looks like. And what happens? All those shirtless...muscular...wet....glistening jocks begin picking on poor ol' Powder. Why? Because otherwise there wouldn't be a movie.
But Powder shows all of them. His IQ test shows him (that would be Salva) to be the smartest person on the planet. Like I said, he's the Messiah. He also has magical Jesus-like powers. He raises the dead. He reads minds. Wow. So what if Salva blows 12-year-old boys? Doesn't resurrecting dead people make up for that? Of course it does.
Being a child molester, Salva is obsessed with the young... firm...wet...glistening...hairless…genitals...of young boys. In one scene all those mean jocks strip Powder (that would be Salva) naked, and then crow, "Bald as a baby!" I think it's safe to say Salva doesn't like body hair. Kids don't have any body hair. In the world of the Messiah, there is no body hair. It interferes with the Messiah's (that would be Salva) sex life.
Here's a telling comment I found: "Sandra Baker, executive director of the Child and Family Institute in Sacramento, Calif., said child molesters think 'they are more perceptive and beautiful than other people. They feel misunderstood.' Salva's having made Powder a pale, hairless, sensitive outcast fits 'what pedophiles can relate to,' she adds. 'They want their victims to be hairless usually. They don't want adult sex characteristics.'"
Here's what Sgt. Gary Primavera, the police officer who worked on Salva's rape case, said: "Victor has every characteristic of a pedophile that I know of -- and I've worked with enough of them. There was no remorse. The only sadness on Victor's part was that he got caught."
In the movie Powder (that would be Salva) passes on to Heaven (I suppose), courtesy of a lighting bolt. Poof, he just disappears. I wonder: is Salva's Heaven full of hairless 12-year-old boys that he can blow for all of eternity? Or maybe wet...glistening...muscular....hairless jocks? Or maybe Salva's Heaven has both of them Woo hoo!
I'll bet this move is played at NAMBLA gatherings all the time.
Salva is still directing movies. Are there no morals at all in Hollywood? Do we have to nuke the place?
Not long ago he did “Jeepers Creepers,” which has scenes of shirtless, muscular, hairless teenage boys who are caressed and licked by the villain.
Where's a nuclear bomb when you need one? Even the Messiah (that would be Salva) couldn't handle that.
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